Tag Archives: Western European Traditions

La Musica Della Mafia may be the name directed at a collective of Calabrian Mafia music artists that wrote and recorded Il Canto Di Malavita. The group began as vigilantes that seen themselves protectors of their fellow Italian natives. Fighting with each other against the corrupt, monarchic guideline that overcame …

His name is Diego Ramón Jiménez Salazar, but to modern flamenco followers he’s referred to as Diego el Cigala, or “the tiny Prawn.” The popular flamenco vocalist José Monje Cruz offered him the nickname due to Diego’s little size as well as the tremendous enthusiasm that pours out of him …

Gipsy Kings founding member Jahloul “Chico” Bouchikhi shaped Chico AS WELL AS THE Gypsies after falling out in clumps with Gipsy Kings supervisor, Claude Martinez, in 1991. The group quickly seduced attention, selling a lot more than 2 hundred thousand copies of their debut record, Vagabundo. The kid of North …

Created in Brownsville, TX, Chelo Silva emerged in the past due ’30s among the pioneers in the original Mexican music picture in the U.S. After shifting to Corpus Christi, the newcomer was called La Reina del Bolero (Bolero’s Queen) on her behalf passionate, sentimental, and extremely emotive performances. Years before …

b. José Oscar Mejías Hernandez, Puerto Rico. Latin pop vocalist Chelo became a member of the rates of internationally effective Puerto Rican performers in the first 00s, when his single debut 360º broke in to the US mainstream graphs in 2006. He started employed in the music market young, registering …

Raised inside a working-class family, the daughter of the male flamenco singer and a lady dancer, Isabel Pantoja was strongly affected by her parents to be an artist, debuting on-stage at age seven. As an adolescent, Pantoja became a member of a dance group; she later on shifted to Madrid, …

The very best and longest preserved from the Mexican cancion ranchera singers, Chavela Vargas began singing rather later in lifestyle — at night age of 30 — but continued well into later years, charming audiences until she was well into her seventies. Blessed in Costa Rica in 1919, she initial …

Created in 1998 when turntablist DJ Koze and percussionist and singer Cosmic DJ fulfilled up with classically qualified keyboardist Erobique (who experienced also previously performed in jazz and soul rings), International Pony released their initial full-length, We Like Music, in 2002. Their mix of funk and electro led these to …

Given birth to Hamid Cheriet in 1949 in Algeria, Idir discovered achievement in the ’70s using the tune “Rsed A Yidess” and two albums of North African-flavored tracks, prior to making a high-profile comeback in 1999 with an all-star cooperation album, Identités. Following achievement of “Rsed A Yidess” in 1973, …

Kepa Junkera became a specialist musician as a guy, when the music group Oskorri took a preference to him and became thinking about his advanced capabilities for the trikitixa, the Basque design of diatonic accordion. The term can be approximately translated as “bellows from hell,” that ought to get the …